Sun X4200 $/Perf Record: Lotus Domino NotesBench R6iNotes

Friday Feb 02, 2007

Sun Fire X4200 M2 (Opteron 2220) delivers record price/performance on Lotus Domino 7.0 mail server delivered industry leading results with best price/performance for the Lotus[R] R6iNotes on Domino mail serving benchmark.

• The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server, equipped with 2 AMD Opteron 2220 processors achieved best price/performance of $2.66/user among all classes of servers using the Lotus Domino 7.0 Messaging server running the HTTP based R6iNotes benchmark.

• The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server has performed best as the lowest cost and higher throughput solution for Lotus Domino 7 Messaging server running HTTP based R6iNotes benchmark at 24% less price/performance than IBM X3650 Xeon 2x3.0GHz and 56% less $/user than IBM p5-550Q Power5 2x1.5GHz.

• The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server has achieved 16% less $/user than HP DL380G5 Xeon 2x3.0GHz and 36% less price/performance than HP Proliant DL580 G3 Dual core Xeon 2x3.0GHz.

• The Sun Fires X4200 M2 server had 6X better average response time (AvRT) than the IBM X3650 Woodcrest based system and nearly 2X better AvRT than the HP DL380G5 Woodcrest base system.

Lotus Domino 7.0 NotesBench R6iNotes Performance Chart (in increasing $/userorder)

Users = number of users supported (bigger is better)
NotesMark = the benchmark metric (bigger is better)
$/User = cost per user (smaller is better)
#Ptn = number of partitions

Benchmark Description

The benchmark simulates active users accessing their Domino[R] R6iNotes mail files via standard Web browser. Each simulated user periodically sends, retrieves, and deletes a specified number of e-mail messages from a browser. An average user runs this script four times per hour.

The R5iNotes and R6iNotes workloads, using the Lotus Domino Mail server (R5 or R6) are both HTTP based workloads. R6iNotes is heavier with added features and larger mail files using the MIME format.

The Lotus Webmail and iNotes workloads are NOT comparable.

Disclosure Statement:

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire X4200 M2, 2 sockets, 2 cores/socket@2.8GHz AMD Opteron 2220, 32GB, 3 partitions, Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 17000 users, $2.66per user, 14347 NotesMark tpm, 496ms avg rt. , IBM eServer 550Q, 8x1.5GHz POWER5, 32GB, 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.3, Lotus Domino 7.0, 24000 users, $5.97 per user, 20108 NotesMark tpm, 932 ms avg rt., HP DL380G5, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon 5160, 6GB, 3 partitions, Windows Server 2003, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 19000 users, $3.15 per user, 15750 NotesMark tpm, 868ms avg rt., IBM X3650, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 32GB, 3 partitions, SUSE9, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 22000 users, $3.47 per user, 18989 NotesMark tpm, 3056ms avg rt., HP Proliant DL580G3, 4x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 8GB, 4 partitions, Windows Server 2003, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 18500 users, $4.15 per user, 15953 NotesMark tpm, 434ms avg rt., More info: www.notesbench.org

Results Summary

Audited Results
	Users:		17000
	NotesMark:		14347
	Price Performance:		$2.66 $/User
	Price Performance:		$3.15 $/NotesMark
	Response:		496 ms
System:			Sun Fire X4200 M2, 32GB, 2x73GB disks
Number Processors:			2 sockets, 2 cores/socket
Processor MHz:			2.8 GHz
Storage:			2 x StorageTek 3320 SCSI JBOD(12x146GB,15Krpm) Storage Arrays
Notes Version:			Lotus Domino 7.0
	#Domino Partition		3
Operating System:			Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit
Cost:			$45,239.42
Other Performance Metrics
	Users/CPU:		8500
	Users/Core		4250

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Posted at 06:06AM Feb 02, 2007 in Benchmarks
Tags: domino lotus mail notesbench sun x4200